No, this isn’t supposed to be some scholarly article about the 26th Amendment to the United States Constitution. I mean, I could do one if I wanted to, since there’s plenty of interesting stuff to say about it. Like how it was the fastest constitutional amendment to be ratified by the states, taking just over 3 months to do so (as opposed to the 27th Amendment, which took over 202 years to get ratified). Or how it had actually been a law signed by President Nixon before the Supreme Court struck down that law as unconstitutional. Or…
But I digress. The 26th Amendment has nothing to do with anything here, aside from the fact that as of today, it actually applies to me for the first time. That’s right, it’s my 18th birthday! Or as the going expression seems to be around here, I’m “legal.” Which means I can now vote in elections (and I have an absentee ballot for the upcoming municipal/school board elections from home headed my way in a few weeks), and I no longer need parent signatures on liability forms (good since having to scan and e-mail forms between here and my parents at home was getting kind of annoying).
And that’s about all that I have to contribute to this post, but I figured that I couldn’t simply let this day go by without some sort of acknowledgment on here.
Although speaking of elections, Student Government elections are this week on tomorrow and Wednesday. (Next Sunday will be both the end of the fourth session and beginning of the fifth session of the Undergraduate Senate.) I usually take student government elections seriously, but since I’m only eligible to vote for the Class of 2013 Senate seats and class cabinet, I don’t know who any of the candidates are! That’ll be a tricky decision…
But happy birthday to me! Yes, I’ll probably have to celebrate by myself tonight, but I’ll be heading over to Ben’s Chili Bowl for dinner, which will be awesome.
